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Images of the Week

Selected by Deputy Picture Editor Alan Betson

Fri 19 Jan 2018

FAITHFUL DEPARTED: Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer with The Cranberries, who died this week, during a break from recording a solo album in April 2007. File photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish Times

JAPAN LINK: Laoise O'Connor, a member of the EJ Taiko team, during the closing ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Japan at Iveagh House in Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

CHESTER BEATTY ANNIVERSARY: Kristine Rose Beers, senior Ccnservator; Alice Derham, Heritage Council intern; and Julia Poirier, book & paper conservator, with a Burmese Parabaik folding book in the Conservation Lab at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. The facility is starting a year-long celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the bequest which instigated it. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

FUTURE OF EUROPE: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar delivers a speech during a debate on the future of Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters

WASTE REDUCTION: Astrid Gundersen (3), Swords, at a Friends of the Earth protest outside Government Buildings as the Joint Oireachtas environment committee began hearings on the Waste Reduction Bill.
Campaigners from Zero Waste Ireland, VOICE, Uplift and Friends of the Earth presented a joint petition in favour of a deposit and return scheme for plastic bottles. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

CHINESE NEW YEAR: Colina Zheng, from Newbridge, Co Kildare, at the launch by Lord Mayor Micheal MacDonnacha of the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

SNOW ON TARA: Evelyn Cribbons, from Dunshaughlin, with Jenny Copeland, from Drumree, Co Meath, on the slopes at the Hill of Tara, enjoying snowfall this week. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

KERRY BABIES: Joanne Hayes leaves the tribunal of inquiry into the Kerry Babies case in June 1985. Ms Hayes received an apology over the affair this week after fresh DNA evidence came to light. File photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times

POWERSHARING TALKS: Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney speak to the media at Stormont in Belfast where they announced a fresh round of political talks aimed at restoring powersharing in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

ATLANTIC DASH: Left to right are Sean Underwood (25), Patrick O'Connor (27), Eoin O'Farrell (26) and Tommy Browne (28), in Antigua's English Harbour, as they became the fastest quartet from the Irish Republic to complete the 3,000-mile Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua in the Caribbean. Photograph: Ben Duffy/PA Wire

BALLINGLEN ARTS FOUNDATION: Margaret Tyrrell and Hazel Costello at a preview of a selection of works from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Collection at the RHA Gallery in Dublin. Photograph: Julien Behal

OVER THE RAINBOW: Students and teachers at King's Hospital, Dublin, create a rainbow at the end of the school's first ever LGBT+ week, with Senator David Norris raising a rainbow flag to bring the event to a close. Photograph: Darren Kinsella

BELFAST SNOWS: A barrister makes her way into Belfast High Court through heavy snow in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

THICK SKINNED: A crocodile that has had a motorcycle tyre around its neck for at least two years sunbathes on a beach in Palu City, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photograph: Antara Foto/Mohamad Hamzah/Reuters

PENTAGON MEETING: US president Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives for a meeting at the Pentagon, accompanied by vice-president Mike Pence, in Arlington, Virginia, the US. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

REPUBLIC DAY: Indian soldiers ride camels during a rehearsal for a Beating the Retreat ceremony in New Delhi ahead of India's Republic Day celebrations.
Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images

BAPTISM SITE: Orthodox Christian pilgrims perform baptisms at the Qasr al Yahud site on the Jordan River during Epiphany Day, near the West Bank city of Jericho. The ritual takes place at the site believed to be where Jesus Christ was baptised. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA